Cloud-Native Applications in Java

Refreshing the properties

Now, what if there is a change in the properties that you want to reflect centrally on all the services?

1. You can change the message in the product.properties file to a new message, such as Hi Spring.
2. You will notice that the config server picks up this change on the next read, as follows:

However, this property is not picked up by the service immediately, as calling http://localhost:8082/testMessage results in the older Hi There message. How do we refresh the properties on the command line?

This is where the actuator command /refresh comes in handy. We configure the beans to be part of  the @RefreshScope annotation. ...